Hi Chris,
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Chris Seberino cseber...@gmail.com wrote:
Does there exist Sage notebooks for high school subjects like algebra,
geometry and precalculus that are so thorough that they are basically
like interactive textbooks?
The book High School Sage [1] is an ongoing project to write
curriculum materials for high school mathematics that uses Sage. Once
there is enough materials, the next step would be to convert the
materials to an interactive book.
CalculusMathematica seems to be an innovative program to create
similar interactive textbooks for Mathematica for calculus.
Open source projects have a very high turn over with respect to human
resource; someone may be working on one part of the project one day,
and then would stop contributing altogether the next. Thus it's not
surprising that some part of a project receives attention and
innovative work, while other aspects are left to wither on the vine.
Anyone know of such a project or if NSF or anyone else would be
interested in funding development of such Sage interactive textbooks?
I don't know of a specific grant to fund the development of an
interactive calculus book. However, I'm aware of the ongoing book
Integral Calculus and Sage [2], whose goal is to produce a book on
integral calculus that incorporates calculus features of Sage. It's
conceivable that once the whole book is fully fleshed out, there is
scope to convert it into an interactive textbook.
[1] http://code.google.com/p/high-school-sage/
[2] http://code.google.com/p/intcalc-book/
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Regards
Minh Van Nguyen
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